Quel secret a amené cette femme canadienne d'origine arabe dans ce désert ? Que disent de notre monde les contes que le guide raconte à cette femme tout en traversant les lieux en ruines de son enfance ? Un film entre une mémoire arabe meurtrie et un avenir que l'on craint funeste.

A man (played by the filmmaker Nacer Khemir) returns home to Tunis to bury his mother. After the burial, his father gives him an "amana" to be handed to a certain Sheikh named Muhyiddin. Taken by his father's request, the man immediately sets out on an epic journey to find the long lost Sheikh and deliver the "amana."